Bloom Sponsor Feature: Comity Labs
Bloom Season 0 was sponsored by three trailblazing web3 companies committed to achieving gender diversity internally and in the web3 ecosystem as a whole. One of those sponsors is Comity Labs, a new venture capital funded startup building a platform to support gaming DAOs and distributed collaboration.
Founder Dor Levi spent a decade working in marketplace and rideshare companies such as Groupon and Lyft, an experience that he loved but that also left him asking some hard questions. Dor had an inside view of what happened as these traditional web2 companies underwent periods of explosive growth. As the success and size of the company grew, the work that started out as exciting and energizing became stalled and stagnant, and the teams themselves became less efficient. Comity Labs is Dor’s answer to his own questions: “How can I help a group coordinate? How can I solve this human coordination/misaligned incentives problem in an organization?”
Using the technology and paradigms of web3 around governance, transparency, and flexible token mechanics, Comity Labs aims to give team contributors ownership and stake in what they’re building, as well as the means to communicate and coordinate efficiently. Bloom and Comity Labs share a similar vision for this new paradigm, which makes this a particularly powerful partnership. The stagnation, inefficiency, and human disconnect that can occur in traditional web2 organizations arises from a model based on majority male, majority white leadership and engineering teams. A lack of diversity in the conception of a structure will inevitably lead to a lack of diversity in new ideas, responses to changing circumstances, problem-solving strategies, growth and transformation, and so many other barriers that keep “unicorn” companies from adapting to their sudden success.
This all leads to the incredible opportunities available for women and genderqueer people within web3 companies like Comity Labs, who are currently hiring for four new roles:
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Software Engineer — Protocol/Smart Contracts
- Community Manager
Joining Comity Labs right now will make these new hires some of the first employees with a lot of “green field” in which to be creative, experiment, and break new ground in the process of designing and building a better model for work, fair and transparent recognition, and successful team coordination.
Our Bloom Season 0 participants had the chance to attend a Fireside Chat with Dor and hear about the inspiration for Comity Labs. It was a valuable opportunity for the cohort to ask great questions and hear directly from the founder about some of the applications for web3 technology. We’ll continue to partner with companies doing great work in the space, and we encourage all women, genderqueer, or non-binary folks interested in Comity Labs or in learning more about web3 to join us on the Bloom Discord.
